The Clinical Book of Nature
Digital Illustrations
Over the early 2017 I was fascinated with Kyle's Brushes, and greatly influenced by the work of Syd Weiler, who was on Adobe Residency at that time. Watching her streams at Twitch as she worked with Kyle's brushes made me realize I had to switch to digital drawing ASAP, since before I used to illustrate mainly by hand. As I purchased my first set of Kyle's brushes I needed a subject for my new drawings.
I chose to concentrate on a single object per illustration, which was also my way of keeping things simple at the beginning. I am generally often inspired by childhood impressions, and here I remembered T-Shirts my cousins used to wear as we were kids. Those were plain white T-shirts with sharp realistic illustrations of animals and plants accompanied by one big letter that all of the drawn object started from. Like L for Lions & Lemons. I always thought it was such a great way to teach children letters, and since I was taking baby steps in transferring the entire drawing process from paper to Photoshop, I decided to mirror the impression I had as a child looking at those T-shirts to my new set of illustrations.
I remember feeling that animals and plants were misplaced. In my mind it was unnatural for them to grow or live around huge letters. This was why I equally selected Nature as my subject and deliberately attempted to create a clinical, out of natural habitat environment for my animals and plants, almost as if they were illustration from encyclopedia of Flora & Fauna.
I liked the idea and will take time to add more living creatures to my Clinical book of Nature in the future.
I chose to concentrate on a single object per illustration, which was also my way of keeping things simple at the beginning. I am generally often inspired by childhood impressions, and here I remembered T-Shirts my cousins used to wear as we were kids. Those were plain white T-shirts with sharp realistic illustrations of animals and plants accompanied by one big letter that all of the drawn object started from. Like L for Lions & Lemons. I always thought it was such a great way to teach children letters, and since I was taking baby steps in transferring the entire drawing process from paper to Photoshop, I decided to mirror the impression I had as a child looking at those T-shirts to my new set of illustrations.
I remember feeling that animals and plants were misplaced. In my mind it was unnatural for them to grow or live around huge letters. This was why I equally selected Nature as my subject and deliberately attempted to create a clinical, out of natural habitat environment for my animals and plants, almost as if they were illustration from encyclopedia of Flora & Fauna.
I liked the idea and will take time to add more living creatures to my Clinical book of Nature in the future.
The very first "Entirely Digital" illustration made with old Adobe Photoshop brushes (those "Prior-Kyle")
First Illustration made with Kyle's brushes. I decided to illustrate a hummingbird because it had so many colors and I felt it was a great challenge.
